CE Requirement:

InterNACHI's Continuing Education requirement is very straightforward. Twenty-four (24) hours of acceptable Continuing Education (CE)
per year are required to maintain InterNACHI Membership. CE must be verifiable. When a member completes any InterNACHI online course, the member's education log is automatically updated with verifiable CE.

Exceptions:

New Members: New members need not complete any Continuing Education in the first calendar year they join InterNACHI. Example: A new member who joins InterNACHI in July of 2013 needs to complete 24 hours of Continuing Education by December 31, 2014.

24 Rollover Hours: A member may apply a maximum of twenty-four (24) additional CE hours ("rollover hours") to the following year only. For example, if a member completes 30 hours of CE in one particular year, that member has 6 rollover CE hours hours to apply to the following year. For another example, if a member completes 50 hours of CE in one particular year, that member has a maximum of 24 rollover CE hours to apply to the following year only.

Qualifying Continuing Education:

InterNACHI's qualifying subject matter is quite broad. Anything reasonably deemed to be inspection-related can be considered qualifying including CE credits earned from other inspection associations, construction seminars, and code enforcement training. Courses, classes, and seminars all qualify. Example: A mold seminar that lasts 2 hours qualifies as 2 hours of Continuing Education. InterNACHI Chapter meetings qualify for 1 hour of continuing education (even though they may last longer). If you are an education provider or school and seek free approval from InterNACHI, visit: http://www.nachi.org/educationseal.htm

All continuing education must be related to the inspection, construction, or design of buildings and related systems. Chapter meetings must have educational speakers to qualify. It is the member's responsibility to maintain documented proof of completed CE Hours in the event of an audit by InterNACHI. Continuing education claimed must be posted to the InterNACHI member's Continuing Education log.

Verification

InterNACHI members are required to load all details of their continuing educational accomplishments to the members-only education log, including as much detail as possible. All other proof of completion of courses, seminars, etc. should be retained by the member in case further verification is requested.

The word count for the text of the required reading of the program is divided by 140, the average reading speed of adults reading technical content. The total number of review questions, exercises and final examination questions is multiplied by 1.85, which is the estimated average completion time per question. These two numbers plus actual audio/video duration time, if any, are then added together and the result divided by 50 to calculate the CEUs for the self study program. If the total minutes are not equally divisible by 50, the CEUs granted may be rounded down to the nearest one-half credit.

Note:

InterNACHI uses "hours" instead of "CEUs" or "credits." Other associations have been accused of awarding greater CEUs for courses they have a financial interest in. We wanted to minimize such subjectivity. If one course is twice as long as another, it is worth twice as many hours.

Please be sure to upload all of your continuing education accomplishments to the member-only education log. This helps us advise other members of educational options available in their local areas. InterNACHI is accepting of all other associations' continuing education, except for NAHI's.

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